Portside

• State of the Union  --  Cartoon by Nick Anderson

• Poisining the Blood of Our Country  --  Cartoon by Nick Anderson

• Re: Between You and Your Doctor: How Medicare Advantage Care Denials Affect Patients  (Elinore Krell)

• Re: The Missing News About Gaza  (Norm Littlejohn; Minta Colburn; Tom Gogan)

• Re: Two Oppenheimers, Two Views of Who Should Control the Bomb  (Daniel Millstone)

• Re: Major US Corporations Threaten To Return Labor to ‘Law of the Jungle’  (Laurie Burgess)

• Donald Trump – Smooth Criminal or Nah?  --  Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz

• Re: Pharma’s Secret Middlemen Are Poisoning Health Care  (Charles Patrick Lynch)

• Re: Florida Is Swamped by Disease  (Dave Lott)

• IVF Disaster  --  Cartoon by Rob Rogers

• Re: “Empire’s Laboratory”: How 2004 U.S.-Backed Coup Destabilized Haiti & Led to Current Crisis  (Dave)

• Re: Unions Can’t Be Rebuilt Piecemeal. We Need To Go Big.  (Natalya Panteleyeva)

• Floored  --  Cartoon by Jen Sorensen

Take Action:

• Reject AIPAC  (Justice Democrats, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, IfNotNow Movement, the Working Families Party, Sunrise Movement, Showing Up for Racial Justice, MPower Change Action Fund, the Democratic Socialists of America, CommonDefense.us, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Center for Popular Democracy Action, Our Revolution, Dream Defenders, Progressive Democrats of America, RootsAction, Grassroot Global Justice Action, Justice is Global Action, Future Coalition, Peace Action, National Iranian American Council Action, and Gen-Z for Change)

Announcements:

• Online Webinar  --  Israel After October 7  --  March 17  (Haaretz-UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center)

• Webinar  --  Gaza, Protest, Repression and Germany's Conundrum Sunday  - March 17  (United for Peace & Justice)

• Book Talk -- The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom  --  New York  --  March 20  (Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives)

• Fighting For Peace and Justice: Standing Together NYC Fundraiser  --  Brooklyn  --  March 24

• Online - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and Labor Struggles Today  --  March 28  (Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives -ALBA)

• National Day of Action for Higher Education on April 17

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State of the Union  --  Cartoon by Nick Anderson

Nick Anderson
March 8, 2024
Reform Austin

Poisining the Blood of Our Country  --  Cartoon by Nick Anderson

Nick Anderson
March 11, 2024
Pen Strokes

Re: Between You and Your Doctor: How Medicare Advantage Care Denials Affect Patients
 

The authorization/referral requirements of advantage plans are there because the private for-profit healthcare insurance industry is managing the overall healthcare system in our country.

Many people, including myself, are in such plans because of their lower premium costs.  Until our federal government confronts the insurance system that is controlling how we are getting healthcare we will continue being denied the necessary care as described in this article.

Elinore Krell
Baltimore MD

Re: The Missing News About Gaza
 

To understand Palestine and Israel, we need more coverage of the everyday structural violence of occupation. Disinformation involves lying by commission. Decontextualization, on the other hand, is about lying by omission.

While much has been made of the differential coverage of Palestinian versus Israeli suffering over the past several months, by far the greater asymmetry is to be found when comparing coverage of the weeks of kinetic violence after October 7 with that of the decades of structural violence before. The reason for this asymmetry runs far deeper than political agendas.

Norm Littlejohn
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

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Much has been said about the right to self-defense. I'm not all that gung-ho on the concept of self-defense, but if one is going to make that argument, one should take into account the aggression directed toward Palestinians for the last 75 years. The right to "self"-defense, if one is going to argue it, must cut both ways.

Minta Colburn
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

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This quotation is from the article below.

News networks cover bombings, shootings, and other forms of kinetic violence because they are loud, finite events that seize our attention. By contrast, the everyday structural violence of Israel's occupation and apartheid is comparatively uneventful.

Now try replacing the phrase "Israel's occupation and apartheid" with "US militarism and hegemonism "   ... and you get some idea of USA's structural militarism's functions more or less"quietly" in its everyday operation.  US militarism is structural because it is baked in as THE use-of-force key component of US (neo-)imperialism, imho.

Tom Gogan

Re: Two Oppenheimers, Two Views of Who Should Control the Bomb
 

I loved the Oppenheimer movie (and I'm liking the book that inspired it American Prometheus). But I have been edgy about how both portray two people close to J. Robert Oppenheimer: his wife Kitty and his brother Frank. Here, via Portside, KC Cole looks more closely at Frank, his work and thinking.

Daniel Millstone
Posted on Portside

Re: Major US Corporations Threaten To Return Labor to ‘Law of the Jungle’
 

Greetings. I have already sent an email directly to Steven Greenhouse about this, but want to call to your attention a significant error in the story that you printed regarding the NLRB's constitutionality.

I am the attorney representing the 8 terminated SpaceX employees in the case that triggered the unconstitutionality issue so am quite familiar with the facts.

The article reports, incorectly, that "The NLRB declined the Guardian's request for comment. It has yet to file a legal response defending its constitutionality." In fact, the NLRB submitted a brilliant brief to the court in Texas debunking this theory and defending its constitutionality. The briefing is all public record so I don't understand how this error occurred. In any event, the public should know about and have access to the NLRB's very fine brief on this issue.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Regards,

Laurie Burgess

Donald Trump – Smooth Criminal or Nah?  --  Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz

Lalo Alcaraz
March 12, 2024
pocho.com

Re: Pharma’s Secret Middlemen Are Poisoning Health Care
 

Did anyone think that the evil rich would just stop taking as much as they can from people? Really?

Charles Patrick Lynch
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

Re: Florida Is Swamped by Disease
 

“To pretend that the vaccine is unnecessary to eradicate measles is completely illogical, because that’s the reason it’s been gone from our country”

Dave Lott
Posted on Portside's Facebook page

IVF Disaster  --  Cartoon by Rob Rogers

Rob Rogers
March 12, 2024
robrogers.com

Re: “Empire’s Laboratory”: How 2004 U.S.-Backed Coup Destabilized Haiti & Led to Current Crisis
 

"The root of this crisis is not last week, it’s not this week, it’s not even Ariel Henry. But we have to go back to 2004 with the coup-d’état,” says Pierre. “the whole world is participating in the occupation of Haiti unwittingly.”

Dave

Re: Unions Can’t Be Rebuilt Piecemeal. We Need To Go Big.

(posting on Portside Labor)
 

Labor has changed dramatically in many ways, most notably, the level of education has definitely improved.

Much is possible for the future, not holding onto the past.

How did the Poles achieve a change in the conditions of repression and dictatorship? The History of Solidarity
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[English translation available.]

Natalya Panteleyeva

Floored  --  Cartoon by Jen Sorensen

This is the second time in fifteen years or so that I’ve gotten stuck in an airport overnight. Passengers were sprawled out in every possible spot. Some were snoring loudly, a feat of sleep unimaginable in those circumstances, especially given the twice-hourly announcements to NOT LEAVE YOUR BAGGAGE UNATTENDED.

I’ve been to Seattle and San Francisco in recent months, but somehow the inequality in DC seemed more pronounced than I was expecting, and greater than I’d seen on previous trips. 

Help keep this work sustainable by joining the Sorensen Subscription Service! Also on Patreon.

Jen Sorensen
March 6, 2024
jensorensen.com

Reject AIPAC
 

Reject AIPAC is a broad coalition of progressive groups working together to take on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its affiliated dark money Super PACs across electoral, political, digital and organizing strategies. The coalition calls on candidates for federal office to take the Reject AIPAC Pledge to not take endorsements or contributions from AIPAC and/or aligned PACs. 

Join Us  

Together, Justice Democrats, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, IfNotNow Movement, the Working Families Party, Sunrise Movement, Showing Up for Racial Justice, MPower Change Action Fund, the Democratic Socialists of America, CommonDefense.us, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Center for Popular Democracy Action, Our Revolution, Dream Defenders, Progressive Democrats of America, RootsAction, Grassroot Global Justice Action, Justice is Global Action, Future Coalition, Peace Action, National Iranian American Council Action, and Gen-Z for Change will organize Democratic voters and elected officials to reject the destructive influence of the Republican megadonor-backed AIPAC on the Democratic primary process and our government’s policy towards Palestine and Israel.

PRESS INQUIRIES  rejectaipac@gmail.com

Online Webinar  --  Israel After October 7  --  March 17  (Haaretz-UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center)

Join us for an exclusive online conference exploring the aftermath of the October 7 attack and Gaza war. Gain invaluable insights from experts on how these events are reshaping Israel's foreign relations, Israeli-Palestinian dynamics, global Jewish communities, and domestic politics. Don't miss out on this opportunity to understand the unprecedented changes firsthand.

Register now!

Mar. 17, 2024 | Online | 12 PM (EST), 9 AM (PST), 6 PM (IL)

The Hamas assault on Israel on October 7 and the war it triggered in Gaza–by far the most deadly conflict between Israel and the Palestinians since 1948–are seismic shocks whose impact is yet to be fully understood.

What's already clear is that the magnitude of these events will have major, long-term repercussions for Israel's foreign relations, for Israeli-Palestinian relations, for Jewish communities worldwide, and for Israel's domestic politics and societal relations.

This conference will explore these repercussions, offering insights and analyses from a wide range of speakers. Going beyond the news of the day, the conference will provide viewers from around the world with a much-needed comprehensive, yet nuanced, understanding of how the October 7 attack and resulting war have profoundly changed Israel and its critical relationships in an unprecedented fashion.

Among The Speakers

• Thomas Friedman - The New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist
• Prof. Dov Waxman - The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies and Director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
• Moran Zer Katzenstein - Founder of Bonot Alternativa (Building an Alternative) women's movement
• Ahmad Tibi - Knesset member and Co-Chairman of Hadash-Ta'al party
• Major General (res.) Yair Golan - Former IDF deputy chief of staff, running for leadership of Israel's Labour Party
• Yael German - Former Health Minister and former Israeli ambassador to France
• Major General (ret.) Noam Tibon - Former Commander of the IDF Northern Formation
• Rabbi Gesa S. Ederberg - Jewish Community Berlin and Masorti Germany
• Joshua Leifer - Author of the forthcoming book 'Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life'
• Anat Saragusti - Israeli journalist and commentator
• Hussein Ibish - Senior Resident Scholar, Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW)
• Emily Tamkin - Journalist and Author of Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities
• Dr. Nimrod Goren - Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute & President of the Mitvim Institute
• Maoz Inon - Peace Entrepreneur
• Dr. Rula Hardal - A political scientist, research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and Co- Director of “A Land For All - Two States, One Homeland”
• Chuck Freilich - Former deputy national security adviser in Israel now senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv
• Ahmed Maher - Senior Political Editor at Al Majalla
• Jonathan Freedland - The Guardian columnist and co-host of the Unholy podcast
• Aluf Benn - Haaretz Editor-in-Chief
• Esther Solomon - Editor-in-Chief, Haaretz English
• Amir Tibon - Diplomatic correspondent, Haaretz
• Netta Ahituv - Writer and Editor, Haaretz
• Allison Kaplan Sommer - Haaretz journalist and host of Haaretz Podcast
• Judy Maltz - New York and Jewish World correspondent, Haaretz
• Alon Pinkas - Senior writer, Haaretz
• Ravit Hecht - Political analyst, Haaretz
• Hilo Glazer - Haaretz journalist

Webinar  --  Gaza, Protest, Repression and Germany's Conundrum Sunday  - March 17  (United for Peace & Justice)

Gaza, Protest, Repression and Germany's Conundrum.
A two-hour panel and discussion featuring grassroots insights from movement leaders in Germany and the U.S.

New York, USA                         Sun, 17 Mar 2024 at 13:00 EDT

Berlin, Germany                       Sun, 17 Mar 2024 at 18:00 CET

San Francisco, USA                 Sun, 17 Mar 2024 at 10:00 PDT

London, United Kingdom         Sun, 17 Mar 2024 at 17:00 GMT

The global wave of protest against Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza has drawn crackdowns on speech from the streets to university campuses. One place government repression aimed at individuals and groups supporting Palestine has been particularly notable has been Germany. On March 17, United for Peace and Justice will present a webinar featuring a variety of voices from Germany, and accounts of similar experiences in the United States. Learning about what is happening in Germany, a country with a history of official regulation of how the Holocaust can be discussed and how “anti-Semitism” should be defined, could provide new insights into the challenges we face in promoting a fair and open discussion of the Gaza crisis, and the history that has led us here.

Register here:

Speakers:

• Wieland Hoban, Executive Director of Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost (Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East), Germany

• Yasmeen Daher, Palästina Spricht (Palestine Speaks), Germany

• Amira Nasereddin, PA_Allies (Palestinians & Allies), Germany

• Adam Broomberg, Artists + Allies x Hebron (AAH), Germany

• Barbara Dougan, ESQ., Legal Director, Center on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Massachusetts, USA

• Moderators: George Friday, National Coordinator, United for Peace and Justice, and MaTT De Vlieger, Facilitator, Ceasefire Action Committee, Berlin, and Former United for Peace and Justice National Coordinator

Book Talk -- The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom  --  New York  --  March 20  (Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives)

Book Talk -- The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom with Ellen Schrecker and Jennifer Ruth

March 20, 2024, 6pm,
Bobst Library Room 251
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012

Will the truth disappear from our colleges and universities? For decades a well-funded campaign by ultra-conservative pundits and politicians has been seeking to destroy the legitimacy and integrity of American higher education. Its current iteration is the wave of outrageous legislation passed by dozens of red-state legislatures to prevent teachers at every level from dealing with politically contentious topics. The Right to Learn examines these repressive measures and the academic community’s growing campaign to resist the authoritarian threat they pose to our political freedom.

Co-edited by Valerie Johnson, Ellen Schrecker, and Jennifer Ruth, The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom brings together essays from scholars and activists at the forefront of the fight for academic freedom in higher education. This empowering collection, which spans over 40 years of history through to today, highlights the ways in which those a the front lines of the battle for academic freedom are fighting against educational gag laws, book bans, and more.

The Right to Learn is forthcoming with a publication date on April 9th, 2024. While books will not be available for purchase at the event, attendees will receive a discount code that offers 25% off of the book if used at checkout through the Beacon Press website. Offer valid while supplies last. Limit one discount code per person. Valid for one transaction. Discount code is not redeemable for cash, is non-transferable and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount. Valid on beacon.org. US mailing address required. 

SPEAKERS:
 

Ellen Schrecker is well known for her scholarship on McCarthyism and higher education. A retired professor of history at Yeshiva University, her latest book is The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s.

Jennifer Ruth is associate dean in the College of the Arts and professor in the School of Film at Portland State University. She has written about academic freedom and higher education in publications such as the New Republic, Truthout, Academe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and Ms. Her most recent book, co-written with Michael Bérubé, is It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom.

Register

Fighting For Peace and Justice: Standing Together NYC Fundraiser  --  Brooklyn  --  March 24

For one night, we are inviting our supporters to take a pause together and challenge ourselves to nourish the spirit & soul of our movement

Sunday, March 24 · 6:30 - 8:30pm EDT

Bushwick
Brooklyn, NY

Reserve a Seat  

Live Music by Layali El Andalus

First Announced Musical Performance: Layali El Andalus - "Since its formation in 2006, Layali El Andalus has brought new passion to the music of Andalusia, North Africa and the Middle East. Founded by Moroccan-born musicians RACHID HALIHAL (singer, oud, violin) and the group have performed in music festivals and concerts throughout the United States and internationally. For 20 years the group’s leader, Rachid Halihal directed a large musical ensemble in Agadir, Morocco. In 2010 he was invited to conduct the prestigious Aswat Ensemble in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Learn more about Rachid Halihal at www.rachidhalihalmusic.com. , DAPHNA MOR (flute, recorder and ney), and various guest performers, will bring to life a diverse repertoire of music including songs from Andalusia, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and the Middle East."

Standing Together Leadership

Sally Abed is an elected national leader at Standing Together, the Jewish-Arab grassroots movement that mobilizes people around issues of peace, equality and social justice. In recent years, she has become a prominent progressive Palestinian voice in Israel. Sally is a recurring guest on the Promised Podcast and the Co-host of the new podcast Groundwork - a mini series about Palestinians and Jews refusing to accept the status quo and working together for change. Alon-Lee Green is the National co-Director and a founder of Standing Together. He got his start organizing Israel's first trade union of waiters in a chain of coffee-shops and went on to found Israel's first National Waiters Union. Alon-Lee emerged as a prominent leader of Israel's social protest movement in the summer of 2011, and subsequently served as a political adviser in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. Rula Daood is the National co-Director of Standing Together and speech pathologist by profession. She is a Palestinian

About this event

Please join Standing Together’s Palestinian and Jewish leadership, support the movement, and join the fight for peace, equality, and justice. Through an evening of inspiring musical performances and guest speakers, we will build strength together to keep choosing hope and fighting for peace.

For this one night, we are inviting our supporters to take a moment together and feel the spirit and soul of our movement through an evening of connection, music, and an intentional space for togetherness.

Standing Together is the largest Jewish-Arab grassroots movement in Israel, building a shared future for Palestinians and Jews and fighting for peace, equality, and social justice in Israel-Palestine. Our work has become even more crucial since October 7th, and the coming years will be crucial in our fight toward a just, sustainable future for all. Amid an extremely bloody war and dire humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, we are fighting for a ceasefire agreement to save innocent lives and rehabilitate life in Gaza, and bring back the hostages hope safely. We are building the movement within Israeli society calling for an end to the war and the beginning of a new future - a future with a sustainable and just peace.

Building a shared future with freedom, safety, and equality for all Palestinians and Jews is a long and arduous mission. We need your help to keep growing our movement and sustain our resiliency, despite the devastation that has unfolded all around us.

Please consider joining us and/or consider sponsoring more of ST's work through your ticket purchase and write in your personal donation pledge to support the movement.

The evening will honor the holy month of Ramadan with an Iftar blessing and light food served only after breaking of the fast.

Venue location is in Bushwick section of Brooklyn and will be sent to attendees upon confirmation of ticket sale.

Venue is ADA accessible, and accessible by subway and available street parking.

Food will be vegetarian and vegan, done kosher/halal style. If explicitly glatt Kosher or other dietary needs or allergies please indicate in your reservation.

*If you require financial assistance please contact the event organizer Melanie at bluehillsstrategy@bluehillsstrategy.com for more information.

Speaker Info:

Sally Abed is an elected national leader at Standing Together, the Jewish-Arab grassroots movement that mobilizes people around issues of peace, equality and social justice. In recent years, she has become a prominent progressive Palestinian voice in Israel. Sally is a recurring guest on the Promised Podcast and the Co-host of the new podcast Groundwork - a mini series about Palestinians and Jews refusing to accept the status quo and working together for change

Alon-Lee Green is the National co-Director and a founder of Standing Together. He got his start organizing Israel's first trade union of waiters in a chain of coffee-shops and went on to found Israel's first National Waiters Union. Alon-Lee emerged as a prominent leader of Israel's social protest movement in the summer of 2011, and subsequently served as a political adviser in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.

Rula Daood is the National co-Director of Standing Together and speech pathologist by profession. She is a Palestinian citizen of Israel, born and raised in the Galilee village of Kafr Yasif and began her activism in her home city and later became involved in promoting Jewish-Arab partnership in mixed (Jewish-Arab) cities. Before joining Standing Together, Rula worked as a community organizer, organizing events and protests that drew hundreds of activists.

Itamar Avneri is a social and peace activist. He is a community organizer and a member of national leadership in Standing Together (Omdim Beyachad-Naqif Ma'an). He is also a member of the Israeli Climate Forum, founded by President Yitzhak Hertzog, and a Ph.D. student in History of Science at Bar-Ilan University.

Uri Weltmann is National Field Organizer for Standing Together, and a founding member of the movement in 2015. A long-time peace and anti-occupation activist, he also has a background in neighborhood community organizing and LGBT political organizing. Born 1984, he lives in Tel-Aviv with his partner and their two daughters. A teacher by profession, he enjoys Math and Marxism.

Standing Together is a grassroots movement mobilizing Jews and Palestinians from all over Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, social and climate justice. While the minority who benefit from the current status quo of occupation and inequality seek to keep us divided, we know that we — the majority — have far more in common than that which sets us apart. When we stand together, we are strong enough to fundamentally alter the existing socio-political reality. The future that we want to see — with peace and independence for Israelis and Palestinians, full equality for all citizens, and true social, economic and environmental justice — is possible. Because where there is struggle, there is hope.

Musical Performance: Layali El Andalus -

"Since its formation in 2006, Layali El Andalus has brought new passion to the music of Andalusia, North Africa and the Middle East. Founded by Moroccan-born musicians RACHID HALIHAL (singer, oud, violin) and the group have performed in music festivals and concerts throughout the United States and internationally.

For 20 years the group’s leader, Rachid Halihal directed a large musical ensemble in Agadir, Morocco. In 2010 he was invited to conduct the prestigious Aswat Ensemble in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Learn more about Rachid Halihal at www.rachidhalihalmusic.com. , DAPHNA MOR (flute, recorder and ney), and various guest performers, will bring to life a diverse repertoire of music including songs from Andalusia, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and the Middle East."

NEW ANNOUNCED MUSICAL ACT! The Resistance Revival Chorus (RRC) is a collective of more than 60 women, and non-binary singers, who join together to breathe joy and song into the resistance, and to uplift and center women’s voices. The RRC will be joining the evening to breathe joy and song into the movement and moment.

https://www.resistancerevivalchorus.com/

Standing Together https://www.standing-together.org/en

Online - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and Labor Struggles Today  --  March, 28  (Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives -ALBA)

Join Us!
Thursday, March, 28 at 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT

​Online Event!
Register Here!

Please join us as we explore the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire  and Labor Struggles Today in this special presentation and discussion as part of Women's History Month.

We will be joined by Mary Anne A. Trasciatti and Suzanne Pred Bass!
Stay tuned for additions to the panel!

Mary Anne A. Trasciatti is Professor of Rhetoric and Public Advocacy and Director of Labor Studies at Hofstra University. She is also president of Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. Dr. Trasciatti studies working-class social movements, social protest, public memory, and practices of commemoration. She is completing a book on the civil liberties activism of radical labor organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and is co-editor of two recent anthologies: Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (New Village Press, 2022) and Where Are the Workers?: Labor’s Stories at Museums and Historical Sites (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2022). Since 2010, she has helped organize the annual official Triangle Fire commemoration and has led the project to build the Triangle Fire Memorial, scheduled for dedication in 2023. It is the first labor memorial and one of only a handful of memorials to women in New York City.

Suzanne Pred Bass is the great-niece of Rosie Weiner who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and Katie Weiner who survived. She has served on the executive board of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition since its inception in 2008. She spoke as a family representative at both the October 2023 Triangle Fire Memorial Dedication Ceremony and the 2011 Triangle Fire Centennial Commemoration and is featured in the HBO Documentary Triangle: Remembering the Fire. Suzanne has spoken at the Tenement House Museum, Eldridge Street Synagogue, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, FIT, and other venues. Her writing appears in See You In The Streets: Art, Activism And Remembering The Triangle Fire by Ruth Sergel, and Talking To The Girls edited by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti. She has a private practice as a psychotherapist, and was the founder and artistic director of the Todd Mountain Theater Project which produced new plays for 16 years. She had the privilege of being hired by George Watt to work as a clinician at Maimonides Community Mental Center in the 1970’s. She and her husband divide their time between New York City and upstate New York.

The Perry Rosenstein Cultural Series

In honor of philanthropist and visionary Perry Rosenstein, whose Puffin Foundation has made so many ALBA programs possible, ALBA presents an interactive series of events, bringing together diverse progressive voices to enhance understanding and awareness of progressive traditions in America and beyond, and to put those traditions in the context of today’s troubling political and social climate.

Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA)
PO Box 1245
New York, NY 10113

Email: info@alba-valb.org
Phone: +1 (212) 674-5398

National Day of Action for Higher Education on April 17

The Future We Stand For   --  A Call for a National Day of Action for Higher Education for the Public Good: April 17, 2024

For the Steering Committee